This is how we dance now! : performance in the age of Bollywood and reality shows / Pallabi Chakravorty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chakravorty, Pallabi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--India.

Dance.

Motion picture industry.

Reality television programs.

India.

Reality television programs--India.

Motion picture industry--India--Mumbai--Influence.

India--Mumbai.

Physical Description:

xii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book is the first scholarly study of Indian dance reality shows and the attendant celebrity culture. It presents an ethnographic and behind-the-scenes study of the lives of reality show dancers and choreographers in obscure and well-known corners of Mumbai and Kolkata. The dancers' classes, rehearsals, aspirations, and voices-which are often hidden from public gaze-are explored in detail, along with the themes of subjectivity, media-embodiment, pedagogy, gender identity, and social mobility. These explorations are framed by new and original intersections of ideas from the fields of anthropology, dance studies, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, and postcolonial theory. The author offers fascinating, multi-layered analyses into cosmopolitan modernity and the changing visual culture of liberalizing India. Using the lens of dance and dancers, this book offers deep insights into some of the most profound changes taking place in Indian culture today. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Lens on Reality 1

2 Ways of Seeing 18

3 Screens and Dances 56

4 Flexing and Remixing Bodies 97

5 Mediated Subjectivities 140

6 A Struggle for Identity 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199477760

9780199477760

OCLC:

987634952

Publisher Number:

99974526991